Romantic Comedy

You know you love it, even if you may be ashamed to admit it. But it's okay—no shame here, because at Shmoop, we value rom-coms for the great entertainment they provide and also for the ways they carry on classical comedic conventions. They're the Shakespearean comedies of our time, and they were even more Shakespearean, as you might imagine, in the 1930s, when It Happened One Night made movie history.